Nothing has ever been so painful or delicious as being so close to him and being unable to do anything about it: like eating ice cream so fast on a hot day you get a splitting headache.

Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements.

Kenneth L. Pike

Speedy exception is the mother of good fortune.

Proverb

The kakapo is a bird out of time. If you look one in its large, round, greeny-brown face, it has a look of serenely innocent incomprehension that makes you want to hug it and tell it that everything will be all right, thought you know that it probably will not be.

Douglas Adams

The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind.

Eric Hoffer, The Passionate Stat

To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Susan Blow

Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.

Thomas Szasz

Instead of going to college, I spent my time out on the road learning how to be a better musician.

Miranda Lambert

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

LaoTzu

The crowd gives the leader new strength

Evenus

Each country has a soul, and France's soul is equality.

Francois Hollande

Gratitude is the doorman's payment.

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A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

Benjamin Disraeli